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Number ONE (ONe One One one one)

Remember when being THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN THE COUNTRY meant something? Sean Ross does: Listen to N/T WABC New York on holiday weekends, when it pulls out the PAMS jingles and recreates its top 40 heyday of the ’60s and ’70s for a few hours, and you’ll hear a …

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“Goooood morning Supreme Court!”

Does the word “counterculture” have any meaning left when Good Morning Vietnam DJ Adrian Cronauer is now a lawyer for the Pentagon? Has the system changed, Cronauer changed, or both? Or is it just the inevitable march of time? Adrian Cronauer, 65, was sworn in Wednesday to the Supreme Court …

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Ugly in Pink: New Book About Ventura

A new book says Jesse Ventura spent most of his time as governor watching TV and thinking pink: The former manager of the governor’s residence says he decided to write the book after Ventura dismissed the entire staff when a couple of workers made observations about the Venturas to reporters. …

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Mark Lane – Golden State of Mind

The CDs pass before me in a hazy procession of jewel cases. I listen to as many as I can and keep the ones I haven’t heard yet in hopeful piles. They talk among themselves when I’m not around or not paying attention – I fear they plot insurrection for …

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Universal Music Snags DreamWorks Records

The contraction and consolidation continues: the two companies confirmed Tuesday Universal Music Group’s (UMG) acquisition of DreamWorks Records, which sources estimate to be worth $100 million. ….Discussions about the sale of DreamWorks Records arose earlier this year when UMG began to renegotiate its own distribution agreement with DreamWorks. The acquisition …

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Wiretapping Scandal

There’s nothing like a juicy Hollywood scandal to get the blood flowing: The case began with a dead fish and a rose in an aluminum pan, left on the hood of a car parked on a Los Angeles street. Taped to the windshield of the car, which belonged to a …

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Rangers Say A-Rod Available

My response to this “exclusive” from the NY Times is “no shit.” A player making $25 million a year until the cows come home under contract to a last-place team? They would be insane if they weren’t trying to get rid of him. But as the Red Sox found when …

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Art Carney Dies

I am saddened by the death of the most excellent Art Carney at 85: Art Carney, the Academy Award-winning comic actor who first gained fame as the guffawing, slightly off-center sewer worker Ed Norton in the early 1950’s television series “The Honeymooners,” died on Sunday at a convalescent home in …

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